Different immigration groups - USA

I seem to remember a thread similar to this but anyways, this is mainly something involving immigration patterns to the United States. Let's assume that the United States stays the same size as it does in OTL but that different groups immigrate into the country, so for example instead of the millions of Irish coming in, you might have more of a eastern European wave from places like Serbia, Polan coming in instead?
 

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It would have been nice to have had more Asian Indians and people from Ottoman lands. American Muslims would be like Jews Part Two. And Emerson and Thoreau could have further developed their understanding of Buddhism and Hinduism. I could see orders/temple societies/sanghas arising across the country.
 
Well, assuming that the Irish, South Italians, Germans, Scandinavians and English are going to migrate anyway then Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and Canada will be even more populated. Like 50% more at least.
 
I think it would be interesting to see the effects of more immigration from Brazil. How would it shape the "Latino" identity and how it is perceived by outsiders?
 
Instead of the United States of America, the majority of the German and Irish immigration in our time-line is instead diverted into various alternative outposts. The Irish are of course residents of the greater British Empire and there could have been a lot of immigration from Ireland to Canada during the Potato Famine. There was a lot more land and I'm sure the Canadians would be a lot more accepting of the Catholics flooding in especially among the French Canadians in Quebec. The same can go for Argentina and various other countries in Latin America which to my knowledge encouraged immigration especially European immigration to their lands in contrast to the U.S.

If things continue to go down for the Ottoman Empire, I can see a large influx of Ottoman Christians and Muslims of various backgrounds escape the empire and seek a much more stable life in the New World.
 
Mexico was a pretty poor and unstable country in the nineteenth century even more so now than it is nowadays though the drug violence is certainly a problem, I found it hard to imagine that you didn't hear much of Mexican immigration to the United States during such events like the French invasion of the country or the various civil wars and separatist movements that happened in the Yucatan and another places. Southwestern English and by extension the English language in the United States is going to have a much larger linguistic influence from Spanish.
 
If the U.S. hadn't put limitations on migration on people coming from East Asia, we would have had many more Chinese and Japanese people coming into California during the Gold Rush and afterwords.
 
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